Strong against (free range) Fire and (alcoholic) Poisons. Weak against Bugs and Grass. Particularly bugs that wander around in the grass, and then into his daughter’s bedroom, and from there into his shirt.

Ground isn’t weak to bugs. I’m going to vote Rock/Psychic, and I had paragraphs typed up as to why but the site told me I was posting too quickly despite this being my only post of the day and ate my logic. ;^; Long story short: a big rough appearance and time travel powers, plus a lot of accurate weaknesses and resistances with a few weaknesses and one resistance being at least moderately justifiable.

If you consider all of Andrew’s constraints as an *offensive* type, rather than defensive, then ground indeed fits everything Andrew said.

But I don’t see why Andrew would do that, because pokemon attacks don’t necessarily have *anything* to do with the type of the pokemon using them, so the Commander being ground type would be irrelevant to what Andrew said. This isn’t the card game, where every attack is the same type as the pokemon using it….

Greetings, my name is Professor Jared and welcome to great, big world of Pokemon.

Here you will find many strange and exotic creatures called Poke… NO MR. FISHY DON’T EAT THOSE THOSE POKEMON ARE FOR THE KIDS!!! NO DON’T EAT THE KIDS EITHER!?!?! BAD MR FISHY! BAD BAD BAD MR. FISHY!!!

Also Commander is very muscly and large… I imagine he does look somewhat like a monster to a 10yo just leaving home. BTW, if I thought I could put commander in a pokeball and take him home I would definitely try.

Yeah but she obtained it over the course of the series, I believe shortly before/after the Kanto League. That is hardly evidence for her being a trainer, especially since she didn’t actually capture it.
It’s obvious that Ash’s DAD was a trainer though, wherever the hell he is.

Or, he’s entirely unaware of Ash’s existence, and Team Rocket goes after Ash out of blind, dumb luck. Although, arguably, if Red’s “origins” are the same as Ash’s, and Ash is Giovanni’s bastard son, that means he would be Silver’s half-brother. Weird.

That kid must be a super noob, I don’t even play pokemon and I know you have to weaken them before you can catch them, he just threw the thing without even attacking once XD It woulda been funny to watch CB wrestle with a pokemon.

That is simple….
1.) tell the kids they cant have more then 6 pokemon in a team and give them a teleporting device which sends any 7th pokemon that gets into the team to your storage.
2.) use a Computer system to access said storage
3.) take any pokemon in the box as a replacement for the handout pokemon

alternative: since your smart enough to create a working teleporter you invent a working cloning machine.

A few things came to me reading todays post (both the comic itself and the comments)

Firstly: always imagined CoDass using that gap in his teeth to hold the cigar
Nextly: did he drop said cigar in his lap in the last panel, and that is why his face has that “Oh crap! Roasting man-nuts again!” look
Thusly: is it just me who mentally pictures a furry teddybear with 6 tentacly limbs that likes to hang around in trees and drop on unsuspecting tourists when they read the name of the very talented author/artist?

See, this is why you shouldn’t let 10 year olds on a magical journey of friendship and self-discovery just walk into any building or home they fancy.
If one manages to sneak in anyway, just say a random piece of trivia about your location and repeat whenever it tries talking to you. Eventually it should give up and walk away.

I can’t decide how the commander would react to this. On the one hand, he IS used to dealing with kids, on the other he is ALSO a badass space marine with all the associated reflexes. Having someone unexpectedly pop up and throw a small round metal object at your face while yelling could set off some of his less than kid friendly reflexes.

I have never posted before, but I just gotta say. This may be the best page you’ve ever done. Jared as a Pokemon Professor is definitely something I want to see more of, as well as how he tells his asshole family. But the supreme genious of this particular page is the pokeball bouncing off the head.

I’m pretty sure I can make up the dialogue for Commander badass’s thoughts

First panel: “I’m pretending to care because this kid needs a father figure.”
Second Panel: “oh okay, so just like every other “bad guy” I’ve met.”
Third and Fourth Panels: “Wait, What?”
Fifth Panel: “yeah, whatever kid.”
Sixth Panel: “what.”
Seventh and final Panel: “TH’FUCK?!”

Professor Kowalski only gives magikarp out for starter pokemon. He will go on at great lengths to describe the personalities of each of the three starter magikarp, as well as their favorite foods and activities.
It use to be you could tell if something was a pokemon. Oh shit, it’s an ice-cream cone, throw a poke-ball! A mall goth? Throw a poke ball!

If he’s a(n honorary) Poke-Prof now, at what point does Jared lose the ability to distinguish between male and female kids?

Or the names of grandkids or neighbor kids he’s ostensibly known all his life?

And I have no idea what the hell starters a guy like Jared would have.
I bet at least two are Klefki and Trubbish.

Instead, he gives kids a keyring of keys he doesn’t know what they’re for anymore, and a literal bag of trash he was supposed to take out three weeks ago. Using those items/pokemon, the kids that get them will use Poke-Prof Kowalski’s smake-the-other-guy’s-pokemon method to get to the Elite 4. And win. This is particularly understandable when the kid that got “Trubbish” decided to fill it with doorknobs and rocks.